Tuesday, 14 March 2017

Former Gov. of Anambra State, Mr.
Peter Obi, has reiterated the call for African leaders, especially Nigerian
leaders, to invest more in education so as to ensure a guaranteed future for
her people.

A statement by Obi’s Media office
said that he made the advocacy while speaking on Friday at the Oxford
University Business School Africa Forum in Oxford, United Kingdom.

“The future of the continent lies in
tapping her greatest resources – human resources – and the only way to realise
this is that Africa must aggressively educate her people,” he was quoted to
have said.

Obi lamented the billions of Naira
wasted by Africans in epicurean consumption, which he said would have been
enough to raise the standard of education in the continent. He called on
wealthy Africans to devote part of their wealth to education as the Indians are
doing, saying that once Africans get it right, the continent would experience
economic explosion.

The former governor decried the
level of hunger in Africa. He insisted that it is only through massive
investment in education, especially basic education, that such calamities would
be overcome.